by kingdompen | Apr 17, 2023 | Short Stories
By Karynn HecklerSpring “I’ll get there first!” Lillian’s laughter fluttered like butterfly wings. It was spurred by the sight of the boy beside her tripping over his bare feet. Lillian’s gold braids thumped against her green dress’ bodice as she...
by kingdompen | Apr 15, 2023 | Mission & Calling
By E. G. Runyan I thought I saw how stories of this kind could sneak past a certain inhibition which had paralyzed much of my own religion in childhood. Why did one find it so hard to feel as one was told one ought to feel about God or the sufferings of Christ? I...
by kingdompen | Apr 10, 2023 | Poetry
By Daisy Torres I watched you go ice skating, but my mind found something grating. You stood on the ice with a friend, took a quick picture, and that was the end. I saw you scrolling yesterday, looking at a post. It seemed like you thought reality was a ghost....
by kingdompen | Apr 3, 2023 | Short Stories
The Doctor's Daughter By Caitlyn Koser The aroma of freshly baked biscuits filled the house, fragrancing the front porch where I sat with its lofty odors. The trellis on the side of the porch was blossoming, its full, scarlet flowers...
by kingdompen | Mar 31, 2023 | Poetry
By Molly McTernan Have you loosened your hold? Did you begin to stray? Like a lost lamb Who wandered away. Does it all feel so hard? How can you go on? When the light is snuffed out, The curtain drawn. Are you walking in a tunnel? No end in sight? When all has left...
